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The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard

Author

Lippitt, John

Pattison, George

School of Humanities

Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute

Philosophy

Attention

2299/10203

Abstract

Publishing in the bicentenary year of Kierkegaard's birth, this handbook showcases leading contemporary scholarship on Kierkegaard's context, key ideas, and legacy. Brings together a truly international team of contributors, enabling fruitful dialogue between American, British, German and Danish scholarship. The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard brings together some of the most distinguished contemporary contributors to Kierkegaard research together with some of the more gifted younger commentators on Kierkegaard's work. There is significant input from scholars based in Copenhagen's Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, as well as from philosophers and theologians from Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States. Part 1 presents some of the philological, historical and contextual work that has been produced in recent years, establishing a firm basis for the more interpretative essays found in following parts. This includes looking at the history of his published and unpublished works, his cultural and social context, and his relation to Romanticism, German Idealism, the Church, the Bible, and theological traditions. Part 2 moves from context and background to the exposition of some of the key ideas and issues in Kierkegaard's writings. Attention is paid to his style, his treatment of ethics, culture, society, the self, time, theology, love, irony, and death. Part 3 looks at the impact of Kierkegaard's thought and at how it continues to influence philosophy, theology, and literature. After an examination of issues around translating Kierkegaard, this section includes comparisons with Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, as well as examining his role in modern theology, moral philosophy, phenomenology, postmodernism, and literature.